Tag Search: “public health”
The first two years of Modi government
In this article, Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, provides his perspective on the performance of the Modi government in ...
- Pranab Bardhan
- 11 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Public health insurance for tertiary diseases: Lessons from Andhra's Aarogyasri programme
Private health insurance covering tertiary diseases is limited to the upper middle class in India. One reason for low take-up of publicly-financed health insurance among economically weaker sections i...
- Tarun Jain
- 12 April, 2016
- Articles
Social influences and public health insurance utilisation
In developing countries there are often limited formal sources of information about programme benefits or how to access them. Social networks might influence adoption by providing more programme infor...
- Tarun Jain
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Self-reported health data: Issues and solutions
Health data from the National Sample Survey shows an increase in morbidity in India over the years. However, given that the data is self-reported, it is difficult to ascertain whether this indeed refl...
- Aparajita Dasgupta
- 23 March, 2016
- Articles
Improving maternal and child health through conditional cash transfers
Cash transfers to the poor, conditional on use of particular public services, are a popular tool to increase healthcare utilisation. This column evaluates the impact of one such scheme – Janani Suraks...
- Sisir Debnath
- 21 March, 2016
- Articles
Ganga pollution cases: Impact on infant mortality
In response to a writ petition against pollution of the river Ganga due to industrial waste, the Supreme Court of India in 1987 mandated the tanneries in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh to either clean up or sh...
- Shareen Joshi
- 26 February, 2016
- Articles
Tackling India's dengue problem
The dengue virus has infected 25,000 people in India this year, with about 6,000 in Delhi alone. In this article, Chandrakant Lahariya, a public health policy expert, contends that the dengue situati...
- Chandrakant Lahariya
- 01 October, 2015
- Perspectives
Drug quality and global trade
There is a perception amongst pharmaceutical experts that some Indian manufacturers and/or their distributors segment the global medicine market into portions that are served by different quality med...
- Amir Attaran Roger Bate Ginger Jin Aparna Mathur
- 18 September, 2015
- Articles
Impact Evaluation of a Public Health Insurance Plan in India: Post Health Event Survey Pilot
This project pilots a Post Health Event Survey (PHES). The PHES is a potentially more efficient survey strategy than conducting one annual survey of all households. The PHES pilot was conducted in two...
- Cynthia Kinnan Anup Malani Alessandra Voena
- 01 September, 2015
- IGC Research on India
Beyond toilets: Improving the sanitation value chain
Besides access to toilets, proper treatment and disposal of waste is essential for effective sanitation. In this article, Sujaya Rathi - Principal Research Scientist at CSTEP who is currently involve...
- Sujaya Rathi
- 21 July, 2015
- Notes from the Field
Drafting India's new national health policy: A window of opportunity
The Indian government is working on drafting a new national health policy and designing a health assurance mission, in parallel with developing its national health accounts. In this article, Nata Men...
- Chandrakant Lahariya Nata Menabde
- 15 July, 2015
- Perspectives
India's national immunisation programme: Moving from policy to action
About a year ago, the Prime Minister’s Office in India announced the introduction of four new vaccines in the national immunisation programme. In this article, Chandrakant Lahariya, a public health p...
- Chandrakant Lahariya
- 08 June, 2015
- Perspectives